Alcoholics Anonymous and the like

[Ksa]

No, you're just an asshole. I doubt you, or anyone, is addicted to drinking 1mL of alcohol per day. How about educating yourself on what addiction actually is and contributing something useful?

An insult is not an argument. So it is a matter of quantity after-all. It's about uncontrollably drinking unhealthy amounts that place your health at risk unless you seek help. Very good. It's not between you and me, it's all about what everyone is reading, and so, making a fool out of yourself clearly places your credibility at a disadvantage.

You clearly cannot tell between someone being addicted to a substance and someone needing help with their addiction. Some may say that, someone injecting speed-balls needs help. If you do not know what that is, it is injecting a deadly dose of Heroin combined with cocaine, and relying on the stimulant effects of cocaine to overcome the opioid overdose, and since cocaine exits the system faster, it must be continuously administered over a period of 2 hours.

And I do agree that MOST people doing that dangerous practice need help. But naturally, I have met some very smart individuals who have been doing that for 40 years without issues and who don't need your help. You imagine, going to that person and saying that he's killing himself, and he's doing the wrong thing, you imagine how hard he would laugh at you.

So what is required for an addiction to be deemed of an intervention? Several criteria:

- addict becomes physically violent towards others
- addict overdoses requiring constant resuscitation
- addict is no longer functional and able to support himself financially

If either one of those elements is not present, an intervention is only justified for law enforcement purposes. If you try to intervene, you will look like an idiot and people will think you're jealous on the addict for experiencing what you experience not. Why do you drop by, like a fly in the milk in other people's business, when they have asked nothing of you?

Do you get it?